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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UVA is tricky. You can’t tell from naviance if the OOS kids who were rejected took the courses that UVA expects them to take. The most important thing to UVA is the coursework and the grades. A 4.5 or 4.6 doesn’t tell you much.

At my kid’s oos school a ton of kids are applying this year even though they know that they don’t have the coursework or grades that are needed tp get in.  [/quote]

What is that coursework?[/quote]

Generally, student should take the most rigorous courses which are available at THAT STUDENT’S high school.  If a high school does not offer honors or AP in some subject, then student is not expected to take honors/AP in that subject, because it is not a course option.

Specifically, UVa strongly prefers student applicants take a foreign language all 4 years of high school (or to the highest level offered for that language at their high school).  This is true even for schools other than A&S (e.g., even for applicants to Engineering school or Architecture school).  I am not sure exactly how Latin is evaluated by Admissions, but I would guess that would also suffice.  For Engineering, or for some 
one who happens to tell the school they want to major in Science/Math, then at least 1 full year of high school calculus is expected, unless the high school does not offer any form of Calculus.  As before, rigor matters, so Honors Calc or AP Calc is strongly desirable if that is offered at one’s high school.

Mind, I imagine all of what I wrote above is *mostly* also true for any top 30 university or any top 20 public university.[/quote]

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